The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 5Macmillan and Company, 1888 - England |
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... played by this importation from France . For Claude , alas ! was not a native product . No , to our sorrow we say it , he was born at Domfront , in Normandy , a place very famous for the excellency of the air and the production of ...
... played by this importation from France . For Claude , alas ! was not a native product . No , to our sorrow we say it , he was born at Domfront , in Normandy , a place very famous for the excellency of the air and the production of ...
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... plays . Du Vall takes the Hint , plays also , and excel- lently well , upon a Flageolet of his own , and in this Posture he rides up to the Coach - side . ' Sir , ' says he to the Person in the Coach , ' your Lady plays excellently ...
... plays . Du Vall takes the Hint , plays also , and excel- lently well , upon a Flageolet of his own , and in this Posture he rides up to the Coach - side . ' Sir , ' says he to the Person in the Coach , ' your Lady plays excellently ...
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... playing with a tame gull . The marsh was now dry and hard . It is a tract of turf with veins and arteries rami- fying through it , that flush with water at high tide , the refluence of the Colne river , rolled back by the invading sea ...
... playing with a tame gull . The marsh was now dry and hard . It is a tract of turf with veins and arteries rami- fying through it , that flush with water at high tide , the refluence of the Colne river , rolled back by the invading sea ...
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... playing with the gull , sometimes bathing in the " fleet , " where there was a " hard " or gravelly bed , sometimes ... play . I will put the bread in my lips , and you shall peck and try to take it-- She without flying , and I without ...
... playing with the gull , sometimes bathing in the " fleet , " where there was a " hard " or gravelly bed , sometimes ... play . I will put the bread in my lips , and you shall peck and try to take it-- She without flying , and I without ...
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... play at dobb - nuts ? Two does it ; each has a chestnut with a string through it , and one strikes at the other nut , and if he splits it he conquers . I take it your head and mine are set against each other , and we'll see which cracks ...
... play at dobb - nuts ? Two does it ; each has a chestnut with a string through it , and one strikes at the other nut , and if he splits it he conquers . I take it your head and mine are set against each other , and we'll see which cracks ...
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Page 361 - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
Page 330 - And yet Time hath his revolutions ; there must be a period and an end to all temporal things— -finis rerum, an end of names and dignities, and whatsoever is terrene, and why not of De Vere ? For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer ? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet ? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality. And yet let the name and dignity of De Vere stand so long as it pleaseth God!
Page 552 - How, with less reading than makes felons scape, Less human genius than God gives an ape, Small thanks to France, and none to Rome or Greece, A past, vamp'd, future, old, reviv'd, new piece, 'Twixt Plautus, Fletcher, Shakespear, and Corneille, Can make a Gibber, Tibbald, or Ozell.
Page 491 - Old cathedral too — earthy smell — pilgrims' feet worn away the old steps — little Saxon doors — confessionals like money-takers' boxes at theatres — queer customers those monks — Popes, and Lord Treasurers, and all sorts of old fellows, with great red faces, and broken noses, turning up every day — buff jerkins too — match-locks — Sarcophagus — fine place...
Page 491 - appear to be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dockyard men. The commodities chiefly exposed for sale in the public streets, are marine stores, hard-bake, apples, flat-fish and oysters. The streets present a lively and animated appearance, occasioned chiefly by the conviviality of the military. It is truly delightful to a philanthropic mind, to see...
Page 3 - WHEN I had wings, my brother, Such wings were mine as thine : Such life my heart remembers In all as wild Septembers As this when life seems other, Though sweet, than once was mine ; When I had wings, my brother, Such wings were mine as thine.
Page 465 - To the kirtles whereof he would tack us ; With his saints and his gilded stern-frames, He had thought like an egg-shell to crack us ; Now Howard may get to his Flaccus, And Drake to his Devon again, And Hawkins bowl rubbers to Bacchus, — For where are the galleons of Spain ? Let his Majesty hang to St. James...
Page 20 - Well fare thy heart,' quoth the abbot, ' and here in a cup of sack I remember the health of his grace your master. I would give an hundred pounds on the condition I could feed so heartily on beef as you do.
Page 461 - From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly warflame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone: it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire.
Page 8 - At both which places, they may be received in a Stage Coach every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, which performs the whole journey in four days (if God permits), and sets forth at Five in the Morning...